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		single_source on Aug 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shiro Kawai: Schemer, Lisper, Actor Do you mind elaborating on what you mean by "Our regex engine"? I'd love to hear more about what you needed a regex engine written in Lisp for.

e40 on Aug 9, 2020 [–]

Shiro wrote our "new" regex engine, to replace the one written in the 80's. It has served us very well.

https://franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/regexp.h...

(I say new, because it's a bunch of years old, at this point... I forget when he did it)

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